Dave Mackintosh: Fury of the Storm 

I swear Dave Mackintosh looks and almost drums like the new age Dave Lombardo and now the new drummer Gee Anzalone looks and almost drums like the new age Mike Portney. Awesome metal legends

i miss you Dave Mackintosh😭😭😭😭

Power metal is be nothing without the drum beats. Respect to all PM drummer

Saw him twice with Dragonforce, and left with my mind blown. Dave was just a monster, i couldn't believe the stuff he was doing.

Freakin' amazing drummer! So sad he left Dragonforce :(

dave mackintosh have the heart of the songs and the spirit, but anzalone have the great technique and a percent of heart in the songs, cheers from arica-chile machine!!!! i´ve been follow the band since 2001 when the internet albums didn´t come to this far( sorry my english is very poor) my age in that time was 13 and i listened the demo of dragonheart...valley of the damned, that change my musician perspective, un abrazo maestro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can say all you want about vocals, lead guitar, bass, etc., but nothing beats a talented drummer. (see what I did there =] )

I can play drums at an alright level, and I can play songs like this. But, keeping in mind that this guy plays like this for 7+ mins on pretty much every song, at this pace on pretty much every song, for 1,5 hour+ concerts ... it's pretty darn amazing that he can achieve such endurance. I'm knackered after playing one of their songs once.

Dave broke through the fabric of time with the drums on this song.

Fun to see all those people sit there XD Atleast give some headbangs....

these are always fun to revisit. was lucky enough to see DF once with the original lineup, before zp and dave left. i was in awe watching dave move so fast, i had no idea how intense he would be banging the crap out of his kit.

Starting at 5:36...some of the cleanest 3 seconds of awesome you may ever hear.

I can feel the feeling and the passion with which Dave play this song, we miss you Dave ❤️

he must have a really good stamina to play drums that fast for that long..hell yeah (Y)

I love gee the most, cuz he's always smiling while he's drumming

The greatest to ever do it and nobody can change my mind

ID NEVER HEARD HIM JUST GEE THIS man is GREAT

He was so much powerful what the energy ? his stamina is LV.1000 salute to you!! Dave MIT.

While I think Gee Anzalone is a fantastic drummer, he lacks the raw power and presence that Dave possesses' as a drummer. I will always miss seeing him on the kit when Dragon Force rolls through on Tour.

dave are the best holy shit...there are great drummers like Lombardo(SLAYER) or Lars(METALLICA) but dave is on another level of speed and accuracy... i fucking love Dragonforce and i think that they are one of the best bands in the world nowadays

his speed and timing and accuracy takes years to master this man is nothing short of a beast

I'm surprised this legs aren't as thick as my bloody waist

Wow! the bets drummer! excelent song of the band dragonforce! very good very good!!!!👏 Dave is my favory drummer... i love you

We miss you ZP and Dave!!

DAVE MACKINTSOH IS THE GREATEST DRUMMER OF ALL TIME!

Incredible and the fact tgat his headphones got plugged accidently till the tech got them in makes it even better. Very nice job!

People say Dave sucks, but face it, no one has that much energy playing the drums, and keep on playing with full energy for 5+ mins. He's amazing, even tho its the same beats over and over, only a few can actually keep up and play like him. Dragonforce rules :D

One of the best drummer’s ever

Hard to believe he's not freakin ripped from all this man! Dave RULES!!!

anybody watching this in 2018?

@TheMysteriousSage The Rev was undoubtedly one of the best drummers of our generation. He was a exceptionally gifted drummer. Take the time to listen to each and every song he recorded with A7x. There's so much variety and technical engineuity. And for the record, it's not mainstream metal. It's awesome metal.

The great beat by Dave! 💪🔥🔥🔥

miss you Dave Mackintosh

the drum appears dancing with him, never another style will replace blast-beat, never another drummer will replace Dave Mackintosh, Keep Rulling man, you rock!

Man, true power metal, speed metal drummer.

@Deathbaaat Dragonforce as a whole is ridiculously amazing Dave adds to the over all awesomeness

It’s 2018 and I’m watching this.

Are you happy google? I surrender your all mighty rules

Dave Mackintosh shoulda played a drum battle with The Rev.... It would have been absolutely godly.

Nailed it, Fucking talented drummer.

My favorite drummer of all times! :(

@semitonedown As far as what triggers and electronic pads are for? A lot of extreme metal drummers trigger their kicks, snares and even toms. The triggers are small and usually attach to the rim. This so they get a consistent sound using two bass drums at high volume and speeds. What Dave is doing is he isn't even using the kick drums but using a pedal that has pad under the beater, the beater angles down and hits the pad. A lot Roland electric kits have used them...

I think the main reason why Dave leave DragonForce is because he didn't get so much attention. Everyone keeps just pay attention to Herman and Sam. I mean, just look how beast he is in this video! He deserves more appreciation than what he used to got when he was in DragonForce

Dave. How the fuck do you still have arms attached to your body?

competely underrated, he rules

How could anyone dislike this insanely awesome video.

No words..Best drummer ever

Those fills tho 😲 Yep 👍 watching in 2145 remembering this guy ends up playing the drum solo of life, and dragonforce defeats the heralds of the apocalypse in 2045, you’ll see. It leads to ascension and world peace ✌️ you guys are gonna love it Bye 👋

LOVE THIS BAND!

My arms get tired when I play this on Guitar Hero on medium! Dave, you're awesome!

@dangerrat456 thats because he uses trigers, and the beaters for those trigers go down to correctly hit the trigers (i think that he uses the Roland KD7 Kick Controllers)

not a dragonforce fan but I love the looseness he plays drums with. its very kool to see. I can definitely learn a few things from him! :)

After watching this video, the way I heard Dragonforce has absolutely changed... This guy is a fuckin' machine!

Dave must have the legs of a god to play the stomp drums like that jesus

@semitonedown Trigger regular drums is a matter of attaching a small trigger to (usually -but there are different kinds) the rim then part of it will set just above the head to pick up the vibrations from the head (some sit right on the head). You choose what sound you want from the trigger & you could hit a 10" tom & trigger a piccolo snare drum sound. A lot of that went on in the 90's -I read a lot of Modern Drummer. When you mix sounds, they sounds natural, or just use the triggered sound...

Those're some sick bass diddles. I had no idea he was doing that with his feet all these years.

not gonna lie dave is a beast but i dig dragonforce's new drummer more

it says in the description that "you may notice that from 03:31 - 04:00 dave's playing is completely off from the music." OHHHH REALLY?????!!!! ALL HAIL DAVE!! :)

Tried the blast beat, was tired after 10 seconds. Dave is awesome.

@deathmetalstrength Okay I think I see your point. Is it that he keeps the shells there to hide the pads that bothers you, or that it cheats on making sure the sound is consistent? In terms of playing the drums I see no difference. I don't know much about metal drummers. Out of curiosity, how do they use triggers on the kick drums?

@semitonedown Richard Christy is one of my favorite metal drummers -he doesn't use triggers on his acoustic drums. He will use electronic pads to add sounds & textures to the music, like Sean Reinert, but he doesn't augment his acoustics with triggered sounds. He actually practices & uses DYNAMICS to help himself play better. However, I would understand a kit being triggered in an outdoor or huge venue where live miking would be impractical or impossible -there are rare exceptions in my book...

Mi grupo favorito DragonForce

Dragonforce is just a memory without you.

he is rocking there like a a boss!

totaly sport

This is never ending drums

Wow i didnt realize how good he is until i actually watched him! People mainly talk about herman sam and zp be4 he left! But dave should be just as popular as those 3! AMAZING! :D

Playing double in the kick 10yrs ago!

I can actually play at this speed and sound just like him, but I could never do this for hours and hours at a time. I get so sick of when people say he sucks or his band is gay, cause they're not. Even if they were, you don't need the best drummer in the universe or a straight vocalist to write amazing songs like Dragonforce does.

This guy is awesome

dave machintosh drummer ferfect!😁😁😁😁😁😁

Playing at extreme speeds for 2 hours a night is a skill to me, bro.

@i3rucei3ruce The pedals have the pads on the front of them and the beaters are angled down -like I said to semitonedown above, around 0:29 to 0:48 you can clearly see his beaters never touch the real kick drums but angle down and hit the pads on the front of the pedals themselves...

I thought that those drums were about to explode :D

Those are some pretty good kick doubles he's got going there.

The Force.

@deathmetalstrength I don't understand what trigger pads could be for? I play both electronic and regular kit, I think it take just as much effort to strike the pad or skin. Real drums have more of a rebound. If he's triggering the bass drum SOUNDS then why is he keeping his legs going?

mother of drums o.o

@karl9864 He would have say in what his drums sound like, and he SHOULD be tuning his own kit. Besides, how do you know who tuned the kit?

THE most interesting technique shown in this clip is obviously the double strokes on the kicks. At that speed, it's pretty clean!

The best drummer for me

MONSTER!!!!

When he plays the Chorus he looks like a GOD

Does anyone know if he has a group project ? Nope because I miss him. Really !

I still see it in 2021

@CronoX3 true. he has to keep the same beats constant and i dont mind it cause i can headbang for that much longer.

4:30 : Is he using some electric drum pad for the bass drum ? Those beaters looks upside down like an electric drum. This could be an alternative instead of using triggers.

Well at least he wasn't bashed he was loved. Gee is good too

Maybe the best drummer ever. This is so fucking good!!!

WHAT A BEAST! HOLY

The beast!

@Drumpunk13 Triggering doesn´t mean you don´t actually play the bass drum, for example. It´s used because you can barely hear the bass drum when it´s played very fast, that has nothing to do witch cheating.

I was scared at 03:31 to 04:00 I thought: Man, did he realize that is out of rhythm? kkkkk But then I saw the description of the video and understand why.

yes, the beaters are hitting downward, he is not hiiting the bass drum heads

03:31 - 4:00 sounds insanely good (drums)

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!! he's the BESTtttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

3:56 That little triplet bit always makes me smile =] lol

His technique on the hi hat and ride is awesome I can play dragonforce at home without tiring

@Rhapsody3991 Just in case you didn't know, DragonForce's songs generally last up to 8 minutes, and they play all these songs back to back for hours on end, and you saying he has no endurance? I don't know whats going on in your head.

He is so Fekken epic!!!!